To achieve these goals, we recommend that The BRAIN Initiative® develop over a ten-year period beginning in FY2016, with a primary focus on technology development in the first five years, shifting in the second five years to a primary focus on integrating technologies to make fundamental new discoveries about the brain. The initiative is only one part of the NIH’s investment in basic, translational, and clinical neuroscience, but neurotechnology should advance other areas as well. The working group agreed that the best way to set this vision in motion is to accelerate technology development, as reflected in the name of The BRAIN Initiative®: “Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies.” The focus is not on technology per se, but on the development and use of tools for acquiring fundamental insight about how the nervous system functions in health and disease. The charge from the President and from the NIH Director is bold and ambitious. In addition, we include specific deliverables, timelines, and cost estimates for these goals as requested by the NIH Director. This report presents the findings and recommendations of the working group, including the scientific background and rationale for The BRAIN Initiative® as a whole and for each of seven major goals articulated in the report. On April 2, 2013, President Obama launched The BRAIN Initiative® to “accelerate the development and application of new technologies that will enable researchers to produce dynamic pictures of the brain that show how individual brain cells and complex neural circuits interact at the speed of thought.” In response to this Grand Challenge, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) convened a working group of the Advisory Committee to the Director, NIH, to develop a rigorous plan for achieving this scientific vision. This vision, in turn, inspired The BRAIN Initiative®.
Over recent years, neuroscience has advanced to the level that we can envision a comprehensive understanding of the brain in action, spanning molecules, cells, circuits, systems, and behavior.
The human brain is the source of our thoughts, emotions, perceptions, actions, and memories it confers on us the abilities that make us human, while simultaneously making each of us unique. University of California, San Diego Executive Summary
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